Siting and sizing of synchronous compensator based on electromagnetic transient simulation

Abstract

With the increasing load of power grid and the access of new energy sources and direct current lines, power grid voltage stability becomes increasingly prominent. Installing synchronous compensator is an option to supplement reactive power and improve voltage stability. Compared with other reactive power compensation equipment (SVC, SVG, etc.), synchronous compensators have advantages in service life, size, easy to maintenance and etc. Siting and sizing of synchronous compensator are critical for investment and voltage stability adjustment performance of the equipment. Considering that the power grid contains new energy and HVDC equipment, it is necessary to use electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation to evaluate transient stability of a power system when the siting and sizing of a synchronous compensator was determined. In this paper, a method of siting and sizing the synchronous compensator based on voltage sensitivity index (VSI), severity index (SI) and EMT simulation is proposed. VSI of different bus in the system is calculated by injecting reactive power into each bus, and the suitable candidate bus location for compensator is obtained. Furthermore, the calculation of power grid fault severity index is designed, and the synchronous compensator sizing method with the SI as optimization objective is designed. An actual AC–DC hybrid power grid system with 1343 buses was used to test the proposed methods and testing results demonstrate the performance of the proposed method.

Keywords

• EMT simulation
• Synchronous compensator
• Siting and sizing
• Severity index